Web Caching Research Projects

There are many research projects on web caching underway at a variety of
institutions around the world. This page will attempt to list them
(in no particular order) and when possible, provide a brief
description of the research. Additions and corrections
to this list are welcome.

Of course, some ask why do caching research at all? To that question
we have prepared a few answers.

At Lehigh University, research
is centered on
improving the client's perception of the web by reducing user-perceived
latencies. Research includes prefetching methods and an
architecture for online proxy evaluation.

The Relais
cooperative caching project from INRIA is based on Squid, but with
different communication protocols to efficiently refresh multiple systems
when one learns new information about staleness of an object.

The WEAVE
Prototype from the Caravel Project in INRIA provides a means of
optimizing website performance and generation for sites built from data in
relational databases. Caching can be performed at many levels.

Researchers at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki have developed
a CDN simulator.